The confrontation is with somebody who has power over what may be said. A parent who controlled information, a superior who does not explain decisions, a partner who conducts interrogations disguised as conversation. The native feels examined and reacts either by giving nothing away or by disclosing far too much to the wrong person. Both are attempts to end the discomfort. Meanwhile their own investigative pressure, which is considerable, goes unexamined because it is being met coming the other way.
Conversations here escalate. A small disagreement acquires a subtext within three exchanges and becomes a contest over who really knows what. The native remembers what was said and will produce it later, in evidence. Contracts, wills, joint finances and any negotiation involving hidden information are recurring arenas, and they go badly until the native stops treating every counterparty as an adversary, which takes some years and usually one expensive lesson.
Holding both ends means acknowledging the appetite for control of information as one's own, not merely as something done to one. Natives who manage this become exceptional negotiators, editors of difficult material and confidants to people in serious trouble, precisely because they know both sides of the transaction. Those who do not are locked into a long series of power struggles conducted entirely through words, each felt as unprecedented and all of them the same.
What It Gives
- ◆understands both sides of power
- ◆formidable in serious negotiation
- ◆trusted with grave confidences
- ◆remembers exactly what was said
What It Costs
- ◆conversations escalating into contests
- ◆own control of information denied
- ◆disclosure withheld then overdone
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